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Subjects:

Mobs -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 18th century.
Mobs -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Riots -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 18th century.
Riots -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Mobs.
Riots.
New York (State) -- New York.

Local subjects:

Tumultos -- Nueva York (Ciudad) -- Historia -- Siglo XIX. (search)

Form/Genre:

History.

Contents:

Pre-revolutionary traditions of Anglo-American mobs
Rioting in the revolution
Popular disorder in wartime and the Post-Revolutionary Period
Political popular disturbances
Emergence of ethnic conflict
Racial rioting
Labor action
Middle-class culture and plebeian mobs
A disordered society
Policing the city: changing notions of riot control
Afterword: Volcano under the city
Appendix: problems in identifying the mob.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Brown University, 1980) under title: Mobocracy.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302) and index.

Penn Provenance:

Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014 (former owner) (Storage copy)

Contributor:

Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)

Other format:

Online version: Gilje, Paul A., 1951- Road to mobocracy.

ISBN:

0807817430
9780807817438
0807841986
9780807841983

OCLC:

15015726

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